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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Pitzl Marie-Luise"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Creativity in English As a Lingua Franca : idiom and metaphor / / Marie-Luise Pitzl"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2018"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-5015-1003-7"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-5015-1008-8"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (302 pages)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Developments in English as a lingua Franca ; ; Volume 2"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"401.3"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Lingua francas"]
[{"$nulls":4},"English language - Globalization"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Creativity (Linguistics)"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1. English as a lingua franca: Why creativity? -- 2. Creativity, idiom and metaphor -- 3. Describing ELF: Analyzing VOICE -- 4. Creative idioms in ELF interactions: Exploring forms -- 5. Functions of creative idioms and metaphors in ELF interactions -- 6. Metaphorical creativity in ELF interactions: Discovering patterns and systematicities -- 7 .The multilingual dimension of metaphorical creativity -- 8. Implications of metaphorical creativity -- Appendix -- References -- Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","This book investigates formal characteristics and discourse functions of linguistic creativity at the level of idioms in spoken ELF as represented in the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE). Building on the findings of previous ELF research, the book proposes that creativity might serve as a fundamental concept in accounting for the variation that seems to be central to describing and understanding English as a lingua franca."]